Money quote:
“Bennett has been warning for months that Netanyahu is planning a leftist, defeatist government, based upon a coalition with hareidim and leftist parties, including Yesh Atid. Likud’s reported overtures to Yesh Atid, if true, confirm that he was right.”
But a coalition that includes both Bennett and Lapid will mean what? They are mutually exclusive, imho. Bennett can’t even do a Bibi-style double cross. Some of his MKs ARE mitnahalim from Hebron. Tzipi flipped out and yelled at him in an elevator, calling him an extremist. He has said he would not follow an order to destroy an outpost. He’s to the right of Menahem Begin as he was in 1948. Lapid, on the other hand, is the very embodiment of leftist defeatism. This pact of theirs cannot work, except as a trick to depose Bibi, and Lapid will likely stab Bennett right in the back, as soon as Bibi makes the right offer.